Artist Talk: Saturday, November 23 | 2:30 PM Real Art Ways presents Somewhere in the Sequence, a group exhibition curated by David Borawski. Funded in part by a grant from Artist’s Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Somewhere in the Sequence brings together artists from across New England to explore personal, political and artistic stances, resistance to the status quo, meaning and aesthetics, and strategies for artistic and social communication. Incorporating sculpture, video, installation, painting, and photography, Somewhere in the Sequence explores a wide breadth of material and conceptual approaches. Exhibiting artists include Fafnir Adamites, Monique Atherton, Katie Bullock, Alyssa Freitas, Debbie Hesse, Matt Neckers, and Soo Sunny Park.
Riverwood Poetry is a FREE series that takes place on the second Tuesday of the month September 2019 – May 2020. Each night begins with an open mic, followed by a poetry reading featuring regionally-or nationally-known poets.
November Poet | Patrick Donnelly Patrick Donnelly is the author of four books of poetry, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a Lambda Literary Award finalist), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, now a center for poetry and the arts. With his spouse Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly translates classical Japanese poetry and drama. Donnelly’s awards include the 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. Donnelly was 2015 – 2017 poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. About Riverwood Poetry Series
The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. Learn more at their website. Riverwood Poetry is a FREE series that takes place on the second Tuesday of the month September 2019 – May 2020. Each night begins with an open mic, followed by a poetry reading featuring regionally-or nationally-known poets.
October Poet | Michael R. Brown Michael R. Brown attended the University of Michigan where he earned a Ph.D. in English and Education. He has published five books of poetry: Falling Wallendas, Tia Chucha (1994); The Man Who Makes Amusement Rides, Hanover Press (2003); Susquehanna, Ragged Sky (2003); The Confidence Man, Ragged Sky (2007), and The Martin Bormann Dog Care Book (Resolute Bear Press, 2018.) Michael joined the slam poetry movement in Chicago and spread the phenomenon throughout New England. He and Patricia Smith established The Cantab (1992) in Cambridge, MA, carried the slam to Sweden, and led a U.S. national championship team in 1993. He and Erkki Lappalainen organized the first Poetry Olympics in Stockholm in 1998. He also created Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Show, a two-hour theater production. From 2008 until 2016, he and his wife Valerie Lawson put out Off the Coast, an international poetry quarterly. They now run a book publishing press. About Riverwood Poetry SeriesThe Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. Learn more at their website. Riverwood Poetry is a FREE series that takes place on the second Tuesday of the month September 2019 – May 2020. Each night begins with an open mic, followed by a poetry reading featuring regionally-or nationally-known poets.
September Poet | Margaret Gibson Margaret will read poetry from published books that contemplate our relationship with Nature in a time of climate crisis and environmental grief. The poems make a connection between our most intimate personal relationships and the Living World. Margaret Gibson, current Connecticut Poet Laureate, is the author of 12 books of poems, all from LSU Press, most recently Not Hearing the Wood Thrush, 2018. A poem from that collection, Passage was included in The Best American Poetry, 2017. The title poem from her previous collection, Broken Cup, 2014, won a Pushcart Prize for 2016. Broken Cup was a Finalist for the 2016 Poet’s Prize. Awards include the Lamont Selection for Long Walks in the Afternoon (1982), the Melville Kane Award (co-winner) for Memories of the Future (1986), and the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry for One Body (2008). The Vigil was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry in 1993. She has also written a memoir, The Prodigal Daughter, University of Missouri Press, 2008. Gibson is Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut, and lives in Preston, CT. Click here to learn more about Margaret Gibson. About Riverwood Poetry SeriesThe Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. Learn more at their website. Don’t miss this fantastic night of storytelling to kick off the school year and Speak Up’s fall season!
Speak Up returns to Real Art Ways with Tests: Stories About Trials, Tribulations, and Old Fashioned Quizzes. School will be back in session and all are invited for a night of hilarity and heartbreak. The cast features Speak Up veteran storytellers Anne Stuart of Boston, Nina Lichtenstein of Maine, and Hartford area locals Matthew Dicks and Barbara Klau. Joining them will be professional storyteller and New Yorker Carla Katz and first timers Ellen Feldman Ornato and Christine Thibodeau. Hosted – as always, by Elysha Dicks. FREE ADMISSION All are invited to attend an artist conversation and reception with Morgan Bulkeley. Morgan will be in conversation with curator David Borawski about his work and process involved in his exhibition, Space Around A Porcupine. The reception will begin at 1:30 PM with light refreshments and mingling before the conversation begins at 2 PM. From the Artist’s Statement: “I try to make paintings that are beautiful, frightening and funny all at once, similar to The Theater of the Absurd, which assumes things are so bad that you can only laugh. I see in nature and in the best of humanity an incredible beauty; but I also see in our technology and aggression a will and ability to destroy that beauty, either actively or inadvertently. The refuse of our consumerism, wafting down our streets, caught in the twigs of trees in our deepest forests or swirling in giant gyres in the ocean, is a steady reminder of our growing and smothering effect on our only habitable planet. I paint to try to make people think of the fragility in which we exist.” About the Artist: Morgan Bulkeley was born in the Berkshires of Massachusetts in 1944. He was raised on a small farm in the town of Mount Washington, where his parents, both naturalists, raised many wild, orphaned animals. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a B.A. in English Literature. After a stint in the Coast Guard, he spent a year in Newark New Jersey, drawing and working with VISTA Programs. Subsequently, he spent 14 years in Cambridge Massachusetts painting and sculpting. In 1985 he returned to his childhood home where he lives with his environmentalist wife Eleanor Tillinghast. Click here to learn more about his work.
Real Art Ways presents drawing, installation and performance by Estonian-born, NY based artist and educator Jaanika Peerna.
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 19, 6-8 PM Performance: Sunday, February 2, 2:30 PM Peerna’s work encompasses drawing, installation, and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. Her performances often involve the audience in participatory reflection on the current climate meltdown. Her art practice stems from the corporeal experience of existence and reaches towards enhanced awareness of the fragility, interconnectedness and wonder of life.“I am a vessel gathering subtle and rapturous processes in nature, using the experiences and impulses to make my work. I record mist turning into water. I let wind move my body so that it leaves traces on paper. I swim through thousands of layers of gray air and mark each one down. Sometimes public performances with musicians and dancers draw me out from the safe silence of my space and expand my drawing practice with sound and movement. I am interested in the never-ending process of becoming with no story, no beginning, no end—just the current moment in flux.” – Jaanika Peerna
About the Artist Jaanika Peerna has exhibited her work and performed extensively in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Berlin, Paris, Tallinn, Barcelona, Venice, Moscow, Dubai, Sydney, Canberra, Montreal, and Cologne. Her work is in numerous private collections in the U.S. and Europe and is part of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris. Her performance Glacier Elegy was recently acquired by the Glyn Vivian Museum in the UK. Her work is represented in the U.S. by JHB Gallery and ARC Fine Art and globally by IdeelART. She was awarded the FID Grand Prize in 2016 for her work in drawing, and she has been a teaching artist at the Dia Art Foundation for many years. Peerna currently works as cultural attaché for Estonia in New York. Click here to learn more about her work.Real Art Ways presents new work by 2019 Real Art Awards recipient Jeanne Jalandoni.
Exhibition extended to February 14, 2020.
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 9 | 2:30 PMRooted in her experience as a second-generation New Yorker, Jeanne Jalandoni creates paintings and installations that investigate the complicated ideas surrounding Fillipino American identity. Jalandoni uses a mixed media approach that evokes the nature of experiencing a bicultural existence. Her paintings mimic imagery from the Boxer Codex, an anonymous 16th century Spanish manuscript that ultimately created stereotypes of pre-colonization people of the Phillipine Archipelago. Image: The Duster, 2018. Acrylic, oil, trim on canvas and stitched fabric, 60″ x 36″.
From Jalandoni’s Artist Statement Combining media and materials parallels bicultural identity; a mixture of experiences that were essential to my upbringing and cultural inheritance. I am expected to sustain them, but am subject to disassociate because I am “American” before I am “Filipino.” This tension between “real” and “imagined” elements in my paintings invites viewers to question bicultural tangibility, while allowing me to explore and take authorship of my identity.
About the Artist Jeanne F. Jalandoni (b. New York, NY) lives and works in Uptown Manhattan. She works primarily with oil paint and textile. Jalandoni received her BFA from New York University with a concentration in painting. In 2018, she was an artist-in-residence at 36 Chase & Barns Residency (North Adams, MA; affiliated with Erica Broussard Gallery, Santa Ana, CA). Her studio is located at Cornerstone Studios in Washington Heights, NY.
Click here to learn more about her work. Click here to learn more about the Real Art Awards.
The 2019 Real Art Awards is supported in part by the National Endowment of the Arts.
Real Art Ways presents Standing Room, a series of large scale paintings by Brooklyn based artist, Kyle Andrew Phillips.
Utilizing the trompe l’oeil technique and inspired by artists such as Peter Doig, Andy Kaufman and Marc Sijan, Kyle Andrew Phillips explores the concept of time spent with art in the gallery setting. He invites the audience to linger with the work which depicts local people in the Hartford community. From his artist statement, he says, “The average time it takes a person to look at a painting is 15 to 30 seconds… How can one experience [the work] longer?” About the Artist Kyle lives in Brooklyn and has been exhibiting in group shows in New York and Connecticut. His work is in public and private collections throughout the area, including the New Britain Museum of American Art and the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. Kyle attended of the University of Hartford Art School where he graduated with honors and multiple awards.Real Art Ways invites the community for a holiday concert and parranda, with the return of trombonist, composer and arranger Papo Vázquez & Mighty Pirates Troubadours.
“If you examine the signal moments of Afro-Latin music in New York since the mid-1970s, you’ll often find the trombonist Papo Vazquez in the picture, brash and precise, helping to drive the music, giving it snap and ferocity.” – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
This is a special night filled with traditional Puerto Rican food, music and dance. Local Musicians Bring your instruments and join in! Parranda Parranda, of Parranda de aguinaldo (Christmas folk music), is an Afro-Indigenous musical form played during the holidays in various Caribbean countries including Puerto Rico, Cuba, Trinidad, and the coastal area of the states Aragua and Carabobo in Venezuela. Papo Vázquez During the 1970s, Vázquez was a key player in the New York’s burgeoning jazz and Latin jazz scene. He performed with jazz luminaries Slide Hampton, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Foster, Mel Lewis, Hilton Ruiz and toured Europe with the Ray Charles Orchestra. He is also a founding member of Jerry Gonzalez’s Fort Apache Band, Conjunto Libre, and Puerto Rico’s Batacumbele. Vázquez is known for fusing Afro-Caribbean rhythms, specifically those from Puerto Rico, with freer melodic, harmonic elements and progressive jazz. Recently, Vázquez was honored by Arturo O’ Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra as one of the great sidemen of Latin jazz. His most recent recording, Spirit Warrior has received accolades from fans, critics and Jazzdelapena.com, Latin Jazz Network, The Latin Jazz Corner and the New York City Jazz Record, who cited it as “one of the Best Latin Jazz Albums of 2015.” – Latin Jazz Network Band of Pirates Papo Vazquez – Trombone Andy Farber – Ten. Sax Rick Germanson – Piano Ariel Robles – Bass Willy Rodriguez – Drums Carlos Maldonado – Percussionist Obanilú Allende – Perc. Jose Mangual Jr. – Vocals & Perc. Joe Diaz – Cuatro Click Here to Learn More Join us Saturday, July 20 starting at 2:30 PM for an artist conversation and reception with Kylie Ford, one of six 2018 Real Art Awards recipients. Ford will be joined by Visual Arts Manager Neil Daigle Orians in a conversation about the materials, concepts, and research involved in creating the work in Spaces / Places. Reception will begin at 2:30 with light refreshments and mingling before the conversation begins at 3:00. The work in Spaces / Places explores the formal and conceptual relationship between place and space as they operate formally within art objects. In her sculptural practice, Ford is exploring the historic, architectural and functional correlations between Ford’s home region of West Virginia and Real Art Ways. To learn more about her work, visit her website here.
From July 18 – September 29 in our Video Room, Real Art Ways is screening 3 of Mike Estabrook’s videos: Staircase, 4 min. 5 sec., The Good, Etc., 5 min. 10 sec., B-Potemk, 6 min. 51 sec. These works explore Estabrook’s experiments in video, including appropriating from video and film, hand drawn animation, projection, and more. Originally a site-specific installation, Staircase offers a bizarre narrative jumping between prehistoric and contemporary scenes through hand drawn imagery. The Good, Etc. utilizes the iconic showdown scene from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and reimagines it using hand drawn animated interventions. The climactic scene of B-Potemk is further distorted into chaos by Estabrook’s imagery. The overall effect is a surreal trip that exploits the viewer’s sense of nostalgia About the Artist Mike Estabrook was born in Quincy, Illinois and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work spans several media, including animation, painting, drawing, performance and installation. Estabrook’s work has also been shown at several venues, including P.P.O.W. gallery, the Queens Museum of Art, P.S.1, Arario Gallery, Nurture Art, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. He has been in residence at The MacDowell Colony, both the workspace and the Governors Island residency at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and NY Arts Beijing.
Real Art Ways presents Artifacts, a video installation by Bridgeport-based artist Binwanka, curated by David Borawski.
Utilizing a variety of video processing, Binwanka’s work explores the generative nature of video and our relationship with moving images. Consistently abstract, Binwanka creates experiential programming using video synthesizers, glitching, and data bending. The resulting videos exist somewhere between organic and unpredictable, and technologic creatures of code and process. About the Artist In addition to working in visual art, Binwanka hosts a monthly electronic music program through WPKN 89.5 FM, a nonprofit radio station based in Bridgeport. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and he recently completed an artist residency at Artspace New Haven. To find out more about the artist, visit his website.Real Art Ways presents new work by 2018 Real Art Awards recipient Kylie Ford.
Places/Spaces is an exhibition that explores the historic, architectural and functional correlations between Kylie Ford’s home region of West Virginia and Real Art Ways. The work explores the formal and conceptual relationship between place and space as they operate formally within art objects. Ford says, “My work focuses on visually articulating the essence of an object, space, or region through abstraction. I am able to learn about my environment through the use of forgotten, fragmented materials found within surrounding areas. My goal with this body of work is to harmonize similarities between locations, using their translation as an art object to highlight social, economic, and cultural characteristics of place.” About the Artist Kylie Ford lives and works out of Fairmont, West Virginia. She holds undergraduate degrees in Art Education and Studio Art with a 3D concentration from Fairmont State University and a Master of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art. Ford has also completed a summer intensive residency at Chautauqua School of Art in Chautauqua, New York and has recently been juried into the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Ford’s work has been exhibited in venues including Boston University Art Galleries, Manifest Gallery, Huntington Museum of Art, Marshall University, Blackhills State University, Flatbed Press and Galleries, among others. She has received awards and educator recognitions from Chautauqua Institution, The Albert K. Murray Fine Art Educational Fund, and the West Virginia Art Education Association. Ford is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Fairmont State University. More about the Real Art Awards here. The 2018 Real Art Awards is supported in part by the National Endowment of the Arts and The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation. The opening reception of P.A.R.K. Bridging Communities takes place at our June Creative Cocktail Hour. Collaborating with Mary Mattingly and the Nomad/9 MFA program at the Hartford Art School, Real Art Ways presented the premiere of the Park River Tool Kit. This site-responsive project continues a longstanding relationship between Real Art Ways and the students of the Hartford Art School while offering tools for viewers to explore their ideas, including foraging maps, water samples, and historical information. Real Art Ways will continue this project with Mattingly and the current Nomad/9 MFA class with a new installation of objects, projections, and sculptures for the pop-up exhibition, P.A.R.K.: Bridging Communities. About the Exhibit P.A.R.K. Bridging Communities comprises one year of research and design work by four international women artists/MFA candidates in the Nomad/9 MFA Program at the University of Hartford, including Fatric Bewong, Blair Butterfield, Zahar Al-Dabbagh, and Sophy Tuttle. It catalogs the process of the students’ work with artist/faculty Mary Mattingly to create a public art project for Hartford inspired by the Park River. This exhibition is presented simultaneously at the Silpe Gallery at the Hartford Art School and here at Real Art Ways. From the P.A.R.K. Bridging Communities Artists What can it mean to deeply connect to the place you live, or to the place you are visiting? Tasked with considering a bridge between North Hartford and the University of Hartford as a public art piece, we engaged in a deep research process in order to consider the river and its users. We went on an investigative journey of archive and field research into surrounding lands, resources, histories, and ecologies in order to learn more about animals, plants, residents, businesses, and organizations near the Park River. From a physical bridge to an observation station, animal habitats, and an artist residency, the resulting exhibition is a culmination of our research process.
In the spirit of the Stonewall Riots’ 50th Anniversary, Real Art Ways and Hartford Capital City Pride are proud to present QUEER CON – an evening of conversation, performance and community. Community Dialogue | 5:30 PM All are invited to attend this round table discussion aimed at exploring and imagining the future of queer rights, equality, and understanding. Utilizing the Stonewall Rebellion as a base, the community dialogue will tackle issues surrounding intersectionality and how the queer struggle is inherently one we all share, regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, or identity. Community organizers will be present to help facilitate the conversation throughout the night. Performances / Reception | 6 PM Following the dialogue, a social hour with performances throughout the rest of the night will allow us to end on a positive, creative note. This is a chance to be present with other like minded people in an inclusive and welcoming environment. Performances by: Calvin Bittner, Tenaya Taylor, Ephraim Adamz, Joevanni Stewart, domsentfrommars, Luminous, Emma Bilyou, Natalie Rose, Cheena Exodus & Shinobiiq Doors open at 5 PM | Event ends at 9 PM
Author Lary Bloom will give an illuminating presentation and sign copies of his new book, Sol LeWitt, A Life of Ideas. The book represents 11 years of work and 150 interviews around the world. From the book’s description: “Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific work―wall drawings and sculpture in dozens of countries―he created the idea and basic plan and then hired young artists to install the pieces. Though typically enormous and intricate, the physical works held no value. The worth was in the pieces of paper that certified and described them. LeWitt championed and financially supported colleagues, including women artists brushed aside by the bullies of a male-dominated profession. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma, as he refused to participate in the culture of celebrity. Lary Bloom’s book draws on personal recollections of LeWitt, whom he knew in the last years of the artist’s life, as well as LeWitt’s letters and papers and over one hundred original interviews with his friends and colleagues, including Chuck Close, Ingrid Sischy, Philip Glass, Adrian Piper, Jan Dibbets, and Carl Andre. This absorbing chronicle brings new information to our understanding of this important artist, linking the extraordinary arc of his life to his iconic work.” About Lary Bloom Lary Bloom has authored or co-authored ten books including The Writer Within, The Test of Our Times, with Tom Ridge, and Letters from Nuremberg, with Christopher Dodd. He has taught writing at Yale University, Fairfield University, Trinity College, and Wesleyan University. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Each night begins with an open mic, followed by a poetry reading featuring regionally-or nationally-known poets. In Good Time: Incarcerated Voices The poetry you will hear is from inmates at the maximum security MacDougall Correctional Facility in Suffield, Connecticut. They attended a poetry workshop facilitated by Garrett Phelan. Rarely are these poets’ voices heard beyond the locked classroom door. Garrett Phelan Garrett Phelan has been a Teaching Artist under the auspices of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Washington National Opera, The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and other arts and educational organizations. He has published poems in literary journals as well as a volume of poetry, Ode To Outlaws, and two micro-chapbooks Unfixed Marks and Standing where I am. Garrett lives in Bloomfield, Connecticut. About Riverwood Poetry Series The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. From their Facebook page: “The Riverwood Poetry Series has innovated many programs since our inception, all of them free to the public. We provide entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed atmosphere.” Learn more at their website.
The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. From their Facebook page: “The Riverwood Poetry Series has innovated many programs since our inception, all of them free to the public. We provide entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed atmosphere.” Learn more at their website. The Series takes place on the second Tuesday of the month through June 2019. Each night begins with an open mic, followed by a poetry reading featuring regionally-or nationally-known poets. Erica Funkhouser In addition to Post & Rail, winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry, Erica Funkhouser has published four books of poetry with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and one with Alice James Books. Funkhouser’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Poetry, among others. One of her poems has been sand-blasted into the wall of the Davis Square MBTA Station in Somerville, Massachusetts. Funkhouser was honored as a Literary Light by The Boston Public Library and she is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. She lives in Essex, MA and teaches at MIT. About Riverwood Poetry Series The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. From their Facebook page: “The Riverwood Poetry Series has innovated many programs since our inception, all of them free to the public. We provide entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed atmosphere.” Learn more at their website. Riverwood Poetry Series Dates Tuesday, June 11, 7 PM Garrett Phelan (Rescheduled)
The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to the promotion and appreciation of poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming, while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration. From their Facebook page: “The Riverwood Poetry Series has innovated many programs since our inception, all of them free to the public. We provide entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed atmosphere.” Learn more at their website. Riverwood Poetry Series Dates Tuesday, June 11, 7 PM Garrett Phelan (Rescheduled) Real Art Ways presents Museum Mixtape (Dirty South Edition), a 2014 video album in which rap artists perform live critiques of museums in the southeast United States. This work was created by artist Juan Obando and produced as a Rhizome commission, an affiliate in residence at the New Museum in New York City. From the Artist Statement “The piece aims to create a playful connection between hip-hop narratives and institutional art spaces, reflecting on the current state of cultural economies, institutional community engagement and emerging subcultural forms and their intersections.” About the Artist Juan Obando is Colombian new media artist currently living and working out of Boston. His work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues including the VOLTA art fair, Kala Art Institute, Duke University, and NADA in Bogota, Colombia. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Featured image: Still from Museum Mixtape (Dirty South Edition)
